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Opposing Waldstoin in the Crimson's Eastern League opener, will be Walt Sickles, last year's league leading pitcher. Sickles, headman of the Cornell mound corps, turned in a pair of one sided victories over the Stahlmen last season and until he was beaten by Pennsylvania last Saturday, he had not been defeated in two year's of league play...
First approach was to M. G. M. Headman Louis B. Mayer, an old Hearst friend and spiritual shepherd of Hollywood's producers. Mr. Mayer was warned that the release of Kane would mean a good, old-fashioned Hearstian attack on Hollywood-lots of stories on the intimate facts of the intimate lives of the movie colony. Hearst's gossip-dishing Adela Rogers St. Johns was placed on the firing line...
Chock-full of a sense of social significance is energetic little Morris Novik, 38, who in his three years as headman at WNYC has made it the best-run of the 30-odd non-commercial stations in the land. A onetime rabbinical student, Novik used to be an ardent "Yipsel" (Young Socialist Leaguer), trained for his present job by serving as social director of an International Ladies Garment Workers camp in Pennsylvania...
First result was that no more mention of R. K. O. pictures appeared in Hearst papers in Baltimore, Manhattan, Los Angeles-a free publicity break itself worth several thousand dollars. Next, excited Lolly Parsons phoned R. K. O. Headman Schaefer in Manhattan, appealed to him to stop Citizen Kane. Headman Schaefer could not recall exactly what was in the picture, said he would take another look soon; if there should prove to be anything offensive to Citizen Hearst, Citizen Kane might not be released. Gallantly Orson Welles declared that, rather than see his great friend, George Schaefer, in Dutch...
Last week Nazis short-waved to the U. S. the propaganda that Duff Cooper had booted ace Commentator J. B. Priestley off the air waves. Alleged reason: Priestley was threatening to supplant Duff Cooper as headman of the Ministry of Information. Truth was: although Priestley had not abandoned his thrice-weekly broadcasts to Canada and the U. S., he had given up his Sunday-night talks to the radio listeners of England...